Brush



Patented Apr. 24, 1923..

unirse stares AUGUST GISSLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BRUSH.

Application led March 22, 1922.

T all fio/0m 'it muy concer/1i Be it known that I, AUG-UST Grssnnn, a citi! zen ot the United States, residing at 2355 Second Avenue, New York, N. Y., have invented a new Improvement in Brushes, of

which the following is a specification.

The brush is made out ot the bark oitl the -Bombax tree.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of' the specifications, are two illustrations.

Figure l shows a finished pietre of bark ready to nail around a handle.

Figure 2 shows the finished brush.

Incarrying the invention into eliect the bark is removed from the tree in pieces ot suitable size and the outer skin or cortical is detached therefrom. v .t

The bark is then submerged in Water long enough to effect termenta-tion in order to remove the nonresinous gum, Which is soiuble in Water.

`When the gum is removed the bark can easily be divided into iibres. n

sitter the end of the piece of bark is cut square, it is held against revolving circular knives which divide the bark intonarrow strips one quarter of an inch Wide.

Then a revolving drum studded with sharpk pointed round nails divides these strips three-'fourths of their length intoiibers, leaving one-fourth undivided, still one quarter of an inch Wide.

The so divided bark is then cutoii' about one inch longerand when dry, appears like Figure (l) as l, undivided bark, 2, one quarter of an'inch -Wide strips, 3, separated fibres. Y

The dimensions of such pieces change ac- Serial' No. 545,746.

cording tor size and'shape of brush to be 40 made. I

Figure (2) shows the linished brush.

After the undivided piece of bark is nailed around the handle, a metallic band 4, the Width of the undivided bark is drawn `tightly around and nailed fast to give more c strength and a better yappearance to the brus The partly divided strips 2 give more `flexibility and prevents clogging up of di- 504 vided `fibres 3.

r`Each fibre is fast on a strip and each strip tast on the undivided bark which is nailed iast to a handle, so iibres cannot Jfall out all at once as sometimes happens to badly cemented and Wire bound bristle andjfibre brushes.

Themanufacture of. thesevbrushes does not require skilled labork therefore vthese brushes can be sold cheap. Y

Havinfr thus fully described my invention, what Ielaim as new anddesire to `secure by LettersPatent is The method `of making a brushy from tree bark, which' consists in fermenting a piece 65 oit' the bark to remove the gum,fdividing a portion of the piece of fermented bark into strips by slits extending from one end ot said piece and then further dividing the outer portions of said strips into fibers. e'

in testimony that I claim the foregoing as inyfown, l' have hereto `aiiiXed my sigl nature 1n the presence of two Witnesses.

HENRY HL JENNINGS, HERMAN JAGLE. 

